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Ten of Shakespeare's plays are categorized as histories.

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What three type of drama did shakespeare write?

Greek tragedy


Which plays did Shakespeare write the most?

If we divide Shakespeare's plays into comedies, histories and tragedies, the comedies outnumber the others almost two to one. There are ten histories and ten tragedies and eighteen comedies.


How many plays did William Shakespeare write and what are the categories into which Shakespeare's plays were divided?

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What Genres did Shakespeare write with?

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Since you are asking this in the category 'Shakespeare': he wrote tragedies (10), histories (10), romances (5) and comedies (13).


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What types of plays did William Shakespeare mainly write?

You might think that William Shakespeare mainly wrote tragedies because he is most famous for his tragedies, but actually he wrote almost twice as many comedies (18) as tragedies (10) and histories (10).